Gooberness

Yes I too have total duh moments where I am amazed I'm able to walk straight. I did a craft swap via Skunkboy's blog and got this lovely girl out in Japan as my swap buddy. Now she has the coolest Etsy shop.









Well I decided to make her a hand carved stamp of course! I mean its what I do right? So I drew a monkey similar to those she sells and carved it and then carved a stamp of her Etsy store name. The Eleventh Monkey. Now if you notice in this picture what is wrong I'll give you two points. lol. I MIS-SPELLED the Eleventh.!!! Seriously! I didn't notice till I stamped it. lol. When I carve I kinda go into a little mind hole. I'm thinking about clear lines, not cutting myself and just zoning out. I'm not really looking at the letters. I'm looking at the shapes of the letters. Needless to say I carved her a new one and sent it out the other day. Hope you like it Louana! I can't wait to get my stuff from you.

I also in a dumb moment forgot to take a picture of the "fixed" Eleventh Monkey stamp so...you all get to witness my oops. :) Makes me human right?


I have been searching and gathering and obsessing about my remains of the day journal. Ooh I love that class. Worth every penny! It makes you look at every little thing you own and get as an opportunity to use it in a cool way. All those little sheets of prettiness too cool to throw away, but you have no idea what to do with. Voila! This is the class for you. It also makes you kick yourself a bit if you have recently gotten rid of things you wish you now had to make said book.

And if you are like me and have a pile waiting to be given away you will be digging through it "saving" things when really you don't need anymore clutter.

The other day I managed to make another quick drawing with my pastels that I love and I used it on an art journal page. I used a pencil in the pastels to write the journaling. Its so pretty I can't stand it. This is my favorite page this year so far.


















I first distress inked a sheet of cardstock and splattered it with my own colored spray ink. I take a Mini mister fill it with water and a bit of perfect pearls and some drops of reinker distress ink and spray it on the page. If you heat it dry with an embossing gun it gives you a cool effect. The excited are K &company stickers. The bottom strip is colored cardstock with oil pastedls and pencil scallops. The rose art is just oil pastels and pencil. The jellyfish are rubons. (unknown)

I am planning on doing nothing today. I might drag the boys up to Target. I could use some garbage bags, milk, and a new printer cartridge. Otherwise its alot of laundry. Logan is home with me today because at school they were going on a play field trip to see Cinderella or something play. Girly he called it. I figured he could just stay home. He doesn't miss many days of school. He's only missed a few other days this year.

Thanks for stopping by! If you want to see a closer up version of the art journal page click on it!

I just updated my Etsy store with new stamps!